Reply To: Weird ranking drops this week?

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Yeah, I’d still put money on the plugin update before I’d start blaming some phantom Google rollout. I’ve seen this too many times where the pages themselves are “fine” in the browser, but the rendered HTML or canonicals get tweaked just enough to make GSC look like a crime scene. Technically, Especially on WP affiliate stuff — one bad update and suddenly you’ve got weird internal links, changed schema, noindex on a template, or the canonical pointing somewhere dumb. If it was really Monday and nothing else changed, I’d check the raw HTML vs rendered output first, then crawl a couple of affected URLs and compare them to older versions if you’ve got them. GSC being messy for a few days doesn’t mean much by itself. The timing does, though.